Quotes About Adversity

What about all that 'turn the other cheek' stuff?" Dad's eyes narrowed. "When someone's trying to control you, you come out swinging. And keep swinging. Bible never said be a doormat.

That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too.

If your knuckles are bloodier than your knees, then you're fighting the wrong battle.

It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is.

My life has been real different than I thought. Ain't turned out how I hoped . . . nor dreamt. But I'm not the only man in the world to get screwed by life. Lots are worse off than me. That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too." "You

That's life. You take the bad with the good. Rise up through it. Live in the midst of it. It's the bad that lets you know how good the good really is. Don't let the bad leave you thinking like there ain't no good. There is, and lots of it, too." "You

No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it.

All enchantments die; only cowards die with them.

You are a curse in my life!

He said, "You are lucky to be traveling in a place where a spring is so handy. In my country you can ride for days and see no ground water. I have lapped filthy water from a hoofprint and was glad to have it. You don't know what discomfort is until you have nearly perished for water." Rooster said, "If I ever meet one of you Texas waddies that says he never drank from a horse track I think I will shake his hand and give him a Daniel Webster cigar.

Get crossways of me, LaBoeuf, and you will think a thousand brick has fell on you.

We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.

The Christian perceives in suffering a temptation of Satan to separate him from God." —TEMPTATION

It is what we do with blessings or difficulties that will determine the kind of person we are becoming.

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.

The swift wind of compromise is a lot more devastating than the sudden jolt of misfortune.

We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our Attitudes.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

Not the five feet of water to your chin but the inch above the tip of your nose.

Passion is the great slayer of adversity. Focus on strengths and what you enjoy.

If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.

While you sit Like a rain puddle in hell Knitting the socks Of your life.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.